tree 8d55e281a29fb7a9822b3e19ae9445664098caa4
parent c055da9fbad4b63bb3169f2b1a8b7ad429270bd0
author Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> 1368542767 +0200
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1369156540 -0700

cpu: make sure that cpu/online file created before KOBJ_ADD is emitted

It fixes race between udev and hotplugged CPU registration by defining
"online" attribute statically, so that device_add() would create it
before notifying udev about new CPU.

Original issue report is at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/30/198
"
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:36:23AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > Hey Greg,
> >
> > Hoping you can help with some guidance on how to fix this.
> >
> > The issue is with CPU hotplug is that when a CPU goes up
> > it calls 'arch_register_cpu' which eventually calls
> > register_cpu. That function does these two things:
> >
> > 251         error = device_register(&cpu->dev);
> > 252         if (!error && cpu->hotpluggable)
> > 253                 register_cpu_control(cpu);
> >
> > and the device_register creates a nice little SysFS directory:
> >
> > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/ which at line 251 has the 'add' attribute
> > but no 'online' attribute. udev then tries to echo 1 to the 'online'
> > and it we get:
> > udevd-work[2421]: error opening ATTR{/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online} for writing: No such file or directory
> >
> > Line 253 creates said 'online' and at that time udev [or the system admin]
> > can write 1 to 'online' and the CPU goes up.
> >
> > So .. any thoughts? Is there some way to inhibit from uevent being sent
> > until line 253 has run?
"

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>